NewTek TriCaster TCXD300, User Manual

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5.1 INTRODUCTION TO SESSIONS
Whenever you work with TriCaster, you provide certain information about the production
environment:
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What broadcast standard is used in your locale – is it PAL, common in Europe among
other places, or perhaps NTSC, standard throughout North American regions?
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If your task includes cameras or other live sources, are they HD or SD (or both)?
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How are cameras connected (are you perhaps using component or SDI connections, or a
mixture of several types)?
As you continue, you may make other adjustments relevant to your current production
requirements:

You might calibrate your cameras individually using the Proc Amp settings in the Input
Configuration panels.

If your production plans include the use of greenscreen staging, you will adjust the
LiveMatte settings for one or more cameras to provide optimal keying.
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Perhaps you will use the output Proc Amps to adjust the display of a projection system.
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What are your output device connection preferences? (Will you send output from the
connectors of Output Row 3 to a local reference monitor using an S-Video or composite
cable, etc.)?

You might create a playlist of custom title pages in the Titles player, along with preset
and playlists for clips and other graphics in the
DDR and Stills players.
During the course of the actual live production you may perform further fine-tuning, and also
add to the media content available:

You could grab a series of still images from Program Output .
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And/or capture the network Stream output as a file.
The list of adjustments, activities and assets involved in a specific production goes on, but the
main point to grasp here is that the
session is comprised of all of the above collectively.
Assuming you do not deliberately delete the session, all of your media and all of your settings are
ready for immediate recall.